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Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
John Pilger, CounterPunch
Pilger writes: "Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism."
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John Pilger, CounterPunch
Pilger writes: "Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism."
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Cuba to Be
Removed From US List of Sponsors of Terrorism
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The United States responded positively to Cuba's call to be taken off from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a condition put forward by Havana before embassies could be opened in their respective capitals."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The United States responded positively to Cuba's call to be taken off from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a condition put forward by Havana before embassies could be opened in their respective capitals."
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Conservative
Audience Laughs as Former NSA Chief Refers to Himself as an 'Unrelenting
Libertarian'
Lee Fang, The Intercept
Fang writes: "In a stinging rebuke similar to audience jeering of former Gov. Jim Gilmore's seething criticism of Ed Snowden at last year's CPAC, former NSA director Michael Hayden received an earful when he awkwardly declared that he is a libertarian."
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Lee Fang, The Intercept
Fang writes: "In a stinging rebuke similar to audience jeering of former Gov. Jim Gilmore's seething criticism of Ed Snowden at last year's CPAC, former NSA director Michael Hayden received an earful when he awkwardly declared that he is a libertarian."
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US Sells
Prisoners to the Highest Bidders
Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America
Turck writes: "The Willacy prison fiasco highlights the problems of privatizing prisons and prison services across the U.S. Instead of protecting their limited rights, state and federal governments are selling prisoners to the highest bidder."
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Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America
Turck writes: "The Willacy prison fiasco highlights the problems of privatizing prisons and prison services across the U.S. Instead of protecting their limited rights, state and federal governments are selling prisoners to the highest bidder."
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Venezuela Bans
Bush and Cheney, Labeling Them 'Terrorists' for Iraq Invasion
RT
Excerpt: "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a new mandatory visa requirement for all Americans visiting the country. The leader also called to review and downsize the number of US embassy staff in Caracas."
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RT
Excerpt: "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a new mandatory visa requirement for all Americans visiting the country. The leader also called to review and downsize the number of US embassy staff in Caracas."
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In the War
Over GMO Labeling, Big Food Loses the PR Battle
Tom Zeller Jr., Al Jazeera America
Zeller writes: "Food makers are spending lavishly to avoid mandatory GMO labels. In 2012, for example, opponents of a California labeling proposition - including Monsanto, ConAgra and other genetically modified seed makers alongside food companies like Sara Lee, Coca-Cola and Kellogg's - spent a staggering $46 million, primarily on lobbying and advertising, to defeat the measure."
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Tom Zeller Jr., Al Jazeera America
Zeller writes: "Food makers are spending lavishly to avoid mandatory GMO labels. In 2012, for example, opponents of a California labeling proposition - including Monsanto, ConAgra and other genetically modified seed makers alongside food companies like Sara Lee, Coca-Cola and Kellogg's - spent a staggering $46 million, primarily on lobbying and advertising, to defeat the measure."
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